Morgan's Driving Career

Pre-CupMorgan's racing career began when he used his souped-up moonshine car to earn extra money on the weekends. He won 21 of 29 races to win the North Carolina title. Morgan finished in second in NASCAR's Late Model Sportsman division in 1975, driving in 17 different cars. In 1980 he won the series title.1970s and 80sShepherd made his Winston Cup debut in 1970 at Hickory Motor Speedway, driving the #93 Chevrolet for Alan Flowers. He started tenth but finished ninteenth out of twenty-two cars due to rear end faliure. He made two more starts that year, his best finish a fourteenth at Hickory. He did not race in Cup again until 1977, when he finished tenth at Dover International Speedway in a Jim Makar-owned Mercury. He ran two additional races at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway.

For 1985, he drove for multiple Cup teams, the most of which for the #00 Helen Rae Special. After failing to finish all but two Busch races in 1985, Shepherd drove for Whitaker and himself the following season, winning a career high four Busch races during the season. In the Cup Series, he won his second career race driving the #47 Buick for Jack Beebe. He ended the season driving the #75 Pontiac Grand Prix, finishing 3rd at Richmond International Raceway. The following season, he moved to the #26 Quaker StateBuick for King Racing, winning the pole at Martinsville and finishing seventeenth in the standings. It was also the first time in his Cup career that he competed in every scheduled event. He won another three races in the Busch Series, including his only career road course win at Road Atlanta.

1990'sIn 1990, he scored a career high season-end ranking of fifth for Bud Moore Engineering in the #15 MotorcraftFord Thunderbird. In addition, he picked up his third career win at the season-closing Atlanta Journal 500. After failing to win and dropping to twelfth the following season, Shepherd moved to the Wood Brothers Racing #21 Citgo Ford. Despite dropping to fourteenth in points in 1992, Shepherd moved back up to seventh in points and won his final race to date at Atlanta. The following season, he had sixteen top-tens finished sixth in points, his highest finish since 1990. After finishing in the top-five four times in 1995, Shepherd left the Wood Brothers team.

After beginning 1998 without a ride, Shepherd brought out his own team to attempt the spring races Atlanta and Darlington Raceway, but his #05 Pontiac failed to qualify in both races. In the following race at Bristol, Shepherd drove the #46 First Union Chevy for Team SABCO, finishing 24th, before substituting for Mike Skinner for two races, finishing eleventh at Martinsville. After another race for SABCO and a one-off deal for Stavola Brothers Racing at Michigan International Speedway, where he finished 43rd, Shepherd spent most of the season with LJ Racing, his best finish 15th at the Brickyard 400. He left the team late in the season, and closed the year in the Stavola's #8 Nokia/Kendall Chevy. He ran near the top-ten during part of the race, but wrecked and finished 39th.

Shepherd attempted the 1999 Daytona 500 in a car purchased from FILMAR Racing, but did not qualify. He made his only Cup start that season the following season the following week at North Carolina in the #90 Accu-turn/Pep BoysFord Taurus for Donlavey Racing, where he started 39th and finished 32nd, five laps down. In May 1999, Shepherd announced he was partnering with Rhea Fain to field the #05 Wendy's Pontiac. After the team failed to qualify for the Coca-Cola 600, the partnership dissolved, and Shepherd failed in each of his attempts to qualify for a Cup race that season. He also had his most recent top-ten finish in Cup competition that season, finishing 10th in a Busch Series race at North Carolina for Xpress Motorsports.

In 2001, Shepherd formed his own Truck team, Victory in Jesus Racing, and began campaigning the #21 Ford F-150 on a part-time basis. His best finish was eleventh at Daytona, as well as leading fifteen laps at South Boston Speedway. After making sixteen starts that season, Shepherd finished 26th in points. The following season, his best finish was a 17th at Richmond. He also had the best points finish of his truck career, 24th. He also made his return to the Cup series in his #89 Red Line Oil Ford, beginning at New Hampshire International Raceway. He also attempted a handful of races with Competitive Edge Motorsports.

The following season, he attempted six NASCAR Cup races, making two of the six. In 2003, Shepherd's best finish in the truck series came at Darlington Raceway, where he finished 24th. He spent a majority of the season in the Busch Series driving the #0/70 Eagle Jet International Chevy for Davis Motorsports. His best finish was an eleventh at Talladega. Towards the end of the season, he switched over to his Victory in Jesus ride in the Busch Series, posting two top-40 finishes. In 2004, his Cup team switched to Dodge and attempted 32 races, qualifying for ninteen of them. His best finish was a 32nd at Martinsville. In 2005, he only made four starts.

In May 2006 Morgan made the decision to sell his entire team to his partners, which renamed the team CJM Racing LLC.

He runs part-time in the #0 for Davis in the Busch Series, his best finish 40th at Nashville Superspeedway. At the end of May & June, 2006 Morgan qualified in several Busch races in the #0 car for Johnny Davis.

In July 2006, Shepherd and Christian businessman Dana Tomes of West Virginia formed Faith Motorsports which put Shepherd and the #89 Racing With Jesus Dodge back in NASCAR's top racing series again.